This article was first published by Teri Apter PH.D and appeared in Psychology Today December 22nd, 2015. All credit given to the Author. Sometimes parenting an adult child is smooth and simple: The son or daughter who was hyper-critical of everything you did at 15,...
Blaming – the skill of assigning responsibility for your pain and discomfort to someone or something else. It’s a natural human reaction that has affected everyone at one point or another. In fact, you have likely been both the blamer as well as the person...
Have you ever felt shameful about something? How about guilty? Are shame and guilt the same or are they fundamentally different emotional concepts? Researchers have recently taken an interest in defining and understanding shame and guilt, including the impact of these emotional responses. One of...
Conscious Procrastinating to Gain Control One sign of passive aggressive behavior is procrastination —the act of putting off that which needs to be done. A lot of people procrastinate, but typically it is a subconscious decision. With someone who is passive aggressive, it is often...